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  • Scott Weiland

    The illicit legend breaks from Velvet Revolver to re-create the familiar itch in Bug.

  • The Young Knives: A Cut Above

    Post-punk and pasty in tweed and Oxfords, Voices of Animals and Men, is garishly British. 

  • Reverberations + Echo Chambers

    Iconic sessions in Los Angeles' recording museums.

  • Nico Stai: Meet the New Boss

    The trans-Atlantic singer-songwriter on the bullshit mythos of drugs and creativity. 

  • Modest Mouse

    Pac-NW alt-darlings on success with a grain of salt.

  • Mingering Mike

    Time, movement, and the fantastic comp, Mingering Mike: The Amazing Career of an Imaginary Soul Superstar. 

  • Daft Punk

    Ten years of Franco-funk later, sharing is still caring, if even automatic. 

  • The Internet Is A Fad

    The web is so last season, yet it's impact on music knows infiniteness.

  • Shut Up Already Damn...

    Are Dipset booty pirates?  Who the fuck cares?

  • Rick Rubin

    The all-powerful producer embraces the internet, the metaphysical, and, well, gentlemanly graces. 

  • Noisettes

    The British trio gets all symphonically intangled. 

  • Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly

    The 21-year-old brings his DIY DAT attitude to Southern California with The Chronicles of a Bohemian Teenager.

  • Charlotte Gainsbourg

    Chic is second nature to the actress who hooks it with electo-duo Air on For Ever.

  • Bryan Ferry

    The legendary cool kid returns with Roxy Music and yes, he still makes sport of hippies. 

  • Rich Boy

    Nicolas Wagner shoots reclined refinement.

  • Pitbull

    The rapper releases The Boatlift, his third album, and demonstrates some rare domesticity.

  • Midnight Movies

    Squat and squalor sophistication featuring Gena Olivier.

  • Julien Temple

    The historic punk film director takes an era by the throat in Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten.

  • Ryan Adams

    The alt-rocker paints his aggressions, fears, and enthusiasm into songs, then gives the canvas away. 

  • Pop Idle

    Gitte Meldgaard captures the languid panache of psychotic cyber sickness.